MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 215, 28 March 1885, Page 4

MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877."

Any person discovering n*w gold working, and being desirous of o Umitig in increased area thereon shall mark off a prospecting claim, as provided in Beguliw tion 11, and shall immediately report such eUstoYery with lull particulars to the' Warden, and the ground so marked off •hall be protected until the Warden shxll kave finally refused or granted the chim ; out the Warden may, if he mink fit, refrain from granting or refusing such •laim until the ground shall hare been visited by himself or by anyone appointed kj. him. Notices of all prospecting claims granted with full particulars of 'ocality, yield of fold, and description of workings,"shall be Sosted by the Warden on the outside ot is office for public in formation. It shall not be lawful for the Warden to grant a prospecting claim for any non discovery at a les» distance than two miles from any previously existing workings in alluvial ground, nor *c grant * prospecting claim for any new discovery of a quarts reef at a less distance than half a mile trom any previously existing quartz workings. Ivery prospecting claim shsll, after eeiug marked, be held by one man remaining on the ground during working hours until the application is dealt with and, if granted, the claim must, unless by epeeial permission of the Warden, be fully oecupied within seven days from the date <ef grant. The Warden may, if he think At, grant a prospecting claim to thermal discoverer of new gold workings conjointly with persons who have assisted them in prospecting either with contributions or otherwise, or with other persons who may Jbe nominated by the actual discoverers, although the said persons may not have keen on the ground prior to the granting thereof. The Warden may, upon the application of any persons forming a party of not Una than four, grant protection for not more than three months for a prospecting area at a distance ot not less than two miles from any existing workings in alluvial ground, or in the case of quartz workings of not less than half a mile from any existing quartz workings : Provided in no ease shall any such prospecting area be granted within halt a mile of any other such prospecting area. Provided further that such protection shall only continue in force until gold is struck, in which ca*o the discovery shall be reported, or until the holders are required by the Warden to mark a prospecting claim, in either of which cases a prosj_ acting claim shall be marked and applied for as provided in Regulation 11. and V., and protection shall thereupon cease as to the remainder of such prospecting area. It shall be lawful for the Warden to reoew from time to time the protection for a prospecting area. Prrvided that such renewed protection shall not be granted for more than three months to any time.